Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Eugene V. Debs (American Socialist)

Eugene Victor “Gene” Debs (1855–1926) was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. Through his presidential candidacies, as well as his work with labor movements, Debs eventually became one of the best-known socialists living in the United States.

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The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.
Eugene V. Debs
Topics: Revolution

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
Eugene V. Debs
Topics: Democracy

Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder…. the working class who fight all the battles, the working class who make the supreme sacrifices, the working class who freely shed their blood and furnish their corpses, have never yet had a voice in either declaring war or making peace. It is the ruling class that invariably does both. They alone declare war and they alone make peace….They are continually talking about their patriotic duty. It is not their but your patriotic duty that they are concerned about. There is a decided difference. Their patriotic duty never takes them to the firing line or chucks them into the trenches.
Eugene V. Debs
Topics: War

I am not a labor leader. I don’t want you to follow me or anyone else. If you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of the capitalist wilderness you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into this promised land if I could, because if I could lead you in, someone else could lead you out.
Eugene V. Debs
Topics: Leadership

Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.
Eugene V. Debs
Topics: Contentment

The American people can have anything they want; the trouble is they don’t know what they want.
Eugene V. Debs
Topics: Aspirations, Goals

The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.
Eugene V. Debs
Topics: Work

Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
Eugene V. Debs
Topics: Protest, Equality

Anybody can be nobody, but it takes a man to be somebody.
Eugene V. Debs
Topics: Greatness

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